Transcript Buying and Selling Advertising

Catalogues, Shopping Carts,
and Online Shops
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What is Your Product?
Are you a content provider?
Drive traffic, sell ads
Do you sell through catalogues?
Drive traffic, sell products, support print version
Are you a retail establishment?
Drive traffic, sell products
Are you a wholesale establishment?
Drive traffic, sell products to other businesses
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Catalogues
Should you put your catalogue on the Internet? What
should you consider before making this decision?
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Catalogues
Does your current target market use the Web?
Is the Web target market large enough to focus 100%
of your efforts on this group?
Is your target market local, national, or international?
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Catalogues
How often does your selection of products change?
How often do prices change?
What is the “depth” of product information that may
be required during the decision-making process?
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Catalogues
Web catalogues make the most sense when your
target market matches the demographics of Internet
users, when the market is international, when your
products and prices change frequently, and when a
great deal of product depth is needed to close a sale.
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Online Catalogues
Advantages:
Much less expensive to create and distribute
Can reduce ordering and administrative costs
Instantly available internationally
Easy to change
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Online Catalogues
What are the major disadvantages of online
catalogues?
Can’t leaf through to quickly find products
Must be online to use
More men use the Internet than women
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Hardcopy Catalogues
Advantages:
Visual real estate (coffee table)
$50 billion a year business
Women
• Women use the Internet for communication.
• Shopping ranks dead last!
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Hardcopy Catalogues
What are the disadvantages of hard copy
catalogues?
Menu costs
Expensive
Resource intensive
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Combining Advantages
Combine the strengths: global reach and the coffee
table
Allow consumers to print out catalogue
Use web site to request a hard copy
Use one to play off of the strengths of the other
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Online Ordering
How do you place an online order?
Simple HTML form
Shopping cart software
Storefront software
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Building an Online Shop
Two views of a traditional store:
The customer’s view
• Aisles of packaged goods
• Different sections
• Checkout
The back office view
• Warehouse
• Accounting
• Delivery
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Building an Online Shop
Customer:
Finding the product
Adding to the shopping
cart
Paying for the products
(including tax and
shipping)
Merchant:
Tracking Shoppers
Merging order and
accounting information
Adding and deleting
products
Sales and Promotion
Tracking Inventory
Fulfillment
Updating the Store
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